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Jonathan Wells is one of the best personal development bloggers out there writing for AdvancedLifeSkills.com. His writing style is straight to the point, no fluff, simple steps to help you live a better life. A few months ago Jonathan gave me a copy of his book to find out if Change Your Thoughts readers would benefit from it. I have to admit it took me a while to read it as I had so many other things going on and to be honest I thought it might not live up to my expectations of the writings I had already read by Jonathan. Well, I was in for a shock, the book is one of the best personal development books I have read in a long long time. I have urged Jonathan to get this published in book format but he is reluctant just now. As soon as I finished it I wrote to Jonathan to thank him for the copy, and to ask if he would do an interview as the book was so good. I finally managed to get a hold of Jonathan to do an interview with him regarding his book ‘7 Simple Steps – Life Transformation Guide’
The interview is around 52 minutes long but is packed full of great info from Jonathan, so grab a cuppa, sit back and listen to this I think you will enjoy it.
Here is the interview in full
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Any way you could provide a .mp3 download link for the interview? For audio this long, I prefer to listen on my iPhone/iPod when travelling or walking about.
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Hi Trstan – I will put a link up later for this. Thanks for the suggestion
Hi Steve, just wanted to say how much I enjoyed doing this interview. It really means a lot to me that you are willing to share this with your readers. I truly appreciate your support and kindness.
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Jonathan, it’s great to meet someone like yourself who is living their teaching and it was a pleasure doing the interview.
Having links to download is a great way for people to get alternative ways to listen/read great information like this, facing a flight in the next few days, it would be a great way to pass the time listening to this.
Any ideas how you would get this onto one of those listening devices? ! [ did not want to mention the brand name ! ]
Hi LD – To get this onto your iPod
you would simply download the file, using the link above, onto your computer desktop. Go into iTunes and click on File and I think it is import file into library. Once it’s in your iTunes library you can then simply drag and drop the file into your iPod folder.
Hope that helps LD
Hi Steven, I am listening to it right now. Wow I LOVE your delightful accent. I’m sitting here grinning. I also thought that Jonathan should do his book as a hardcover, because it is SO SO SO good! I suggested the same to him, but I also understand and completely honor his reasons for not doing so.
Thank you SO much for interviewing him. He is a dynamic man in SO many ways. I hope to hear him speak someday. I agree with everything you wrote about his book. I also agree when Jonathan says we live in an over analytical world. I just jumped up with joy when he said that, LOVE IT!! He is one of the very few who I know of who sees this. I agree with him strongly, so to have this confirmation from someone I respect deeply means the world to me. I’m so glad you did this interview.
I too feel that our over analytical tendencies make us complicate the simplest things. One of the many gifts Jonathan offers the world and that just love about him (and find SO refreshing) is that he is NOT complicated. As I’ve grown to know him I’ve realized that is he truly doe NOT analyze everything to death. Do you realize how rare that is in today’s world? Jonathan is someone who REALLY “gets it”.
I think that over analyzing has become a defense mechanism, and is so popular that it’s almost a fad or stylish. Not only does it now occur in the psych world but here in New Mexico where I live people walk around analyzing each other all day long in what can be very destructive and alienating ways. AND it is accepted behavior. It can be a useful tool, but ONLY a tool. If we aren’t careful it can keep us in our “heads” and often stop us from living in our hearts and trusting our innate “gut knowing”.
As long as we can keep analyzing ‘things’ we don’t have to grow or make the changes that might rock our foundations and really change our lives for the better. We are intelligent beings and yet is my culture (USA) we always complicate everything. We make whole cults or spiritual practices based on highly complicated dogma. Why do we do this? I believe it’s because we love our comfort zones. And oddly, even though our comfort zones may not be healthy for us, may be making us very unhappy, may even be killing us, they are FAMILIAR, and we LOVE familiar. We often fear what we don’t know and have yet to experience. We dislike change; it just feels uncomfortable if not downright terrifying. Also, I think we often don’t want to exert the effort. We have become emotionally lazy. Stretching our emotions and being forced into awareness or growth can often be a bit like exercising. We have to stretch our emotional muscle. And it’s soooooo much easier to just talk about doign it and analyze concepts and ideas and beliefs than to actually LIVE them.
We are funny creatures of habit. I think this where Jonathan’s book comes in so powerfully. He makes it so simple and uncomplicated that this book could be used by grade-schoolers. Literally! I just LOVE that. It really requires no effort, no complicated thinking. Simple steps broken down in lots of gradual baby steps that add up to BIG life change.
This is a wonderful interview on both your part and Jonathan’s I am SO glad I started my morning in this way. I thank you both from my heart. Simple, beautiful and more refreshing than I can even begin to tell you.
Sorry about the long comment. Jonathan will laugh as he knows how I am very verbose. But this was an EXCELLENT interview. Wow!
Robin, it readers like you who make this blog a pleasure to work on and to strive to make it better. A sincere Thank You.